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VELLUM: There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
The Drummer, Act 5, sc. 1 (1716)
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Added on 19-Jan-26 | Last updated 19-Jan-26
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Topics: business, commerce, responsiveness, speed
More quotes by Addison, Joseph An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Jef Raskin (1943-2005) American computer scientist, writer
The Humane Interface, 1-6 (2000)
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Added on 21-Jun-22 | Last updated 21-Jun-22
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Topics: application, computer, human nature, interface, responsiveness, user-friendly
More quotes by Raskin, Jef Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop (620?-560? BC) Legendary Greek storyteller
Fables [Aesopica], “The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey” (6th C BC) [tr. Jacobs (1894)]
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Alternate translation: "By endeavoring to please everybody he had pleased nobody." [tr.
James (1848), "The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass"]
Added on 21-Aug-15 | Last updated 16-Sep-21
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Topics: compromise, please, pleasing, popularity, public opinion, responsiveness, unanimity
More quotes by Aesop The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1932-05-22), Commencement, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 6-Aug-25
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Topics: action, change, effort, experimentation, government, policy, problem-solving, responsiveness, test, trial, try again
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